Rails string helper to remove hyphen and capitalize?

Question

I would like to know if there is a Rails helper method that removes hyphen from the String and capitalizes it.

For instance, let us turn early-bird into Early bird.

I would do

"early-bird".gsub('-', ' ').capitalize

but I would like to know if there is a specific method that does this.

Answer 1

I think .titleize is the closest you get, it will capitalize all words though, not just the first.

'early-bird'.titleize

will give you "Early Bird".

See: http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/String.html#method-i-titleize